11. He proposed to her in a moment of mid-life crisis, because he was busy being drunk on a boat instead of being a dad.

12. THEN he decided to get back with Marissa’s mom, Julie.

The first of two (!) times he’d get Marissa’s hopes up for a family reunion.

13. THEN HE DECIDED TO BAIL ON NEWPORT.

When Marissa found out her mom and dad are sleeping together, she visited him on his boat house and said, “You know, for once, I wish you would just grow up and be like a real dad.” It was the smartest thing Marissa Cooper EVER SAID.

LITERALLY ONE SCENE LATER, Jimmy sat down with Sandy and Kirsten to tell them he was moving to Maui to charter yachts:

“I need to get away from here before I do any more damage to myself. Or…to my kids. Or to…to Julie. I love Newport but it’s … it’s no good for me right now. In the last year I’ve nearly been arrested and bankrupt for stealing from my clients, I got punched out at my daughter’s Cotillion, I lost my house, my family, I tried to kiss you — which I, I, I still feel terrible about — I spent this summer drunk on a boat with your 25-year-old sister, and now I’m getting back together with the woman who started this in the first place.”

- Jimmy Cooper, idiot and person who blames everyone but himself.

14. Marissa told him how devastated she was that he was leaving, saying he was the “only person keeping [her] sane.”